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Brief Biographical Note of Justice David Watt
- Received B.A. (French and Criminology) from University of Waterloo,
1967; LL.B. from Queen's University Law School, 1970 (Silver Medallist)
- Honorary
LL.D from the Law Society of Upper Canada, 2005
- Called to the
Bar in 1972; appointed Queen's Counsel, 1982
- 1972 – 1977
Counsel, then Deputy Director, Criminal Appeals and Special Prosecutions
Branch; 1977-1985 Senior Crown Counsel (Criminal Law) with the Ministry
of the Attorney General of Ontario – Responsible for argument of
criminal appeals before the Ontario Court of Appeal and Supreme Court
of Canada
- Appointed a Judge of the Supreme Court of Ontario
(now the Superior Court of Justice) in 1985 – Presided primarily
over homicide and other complex criminal cases; authored the Court's
Criminal Proceedings Rules; authored the Ontario Specimen Jury Instructions
(Criminal)
- Deputy Judge of the Supreme Court of Yukon
- Judge,
Court Martial Appeal Court of Canada
- Adjunct Professor of
Law, Dalhousie Law School, 2006-2007; Adjunct Professor, Osgoode Hall
Law School, 1985-2005; Lecturer, Faculty of Law, University of Toronto,
1990-1993 – Courses in Criminal Procedure, Advanced Criminal Law,
Advanced Evidence, Trial Practice, and Appellate Remedies
- Section
Head, Criminal Procedure Section, Bar Admission Course (Ontario), 1982-1990
- Faculty
Member, Federation of Law Societies' National Criminal Law Program
1972 to date; (Chair, 1985-2004; Honorary Chair, 2004 to date)
- Associate
Director, National Judicial Institute, 2001 to date
- Participant
in Continuing Legal Education Programs in every province and territory
in Canada including programs for Canadian Institute for the Administration
of Justice; Canadian Bar Association; Law Society of Upper Canada;
Continuing Legal Education Society of British Columbia, Nova Scotia
Barristers Society
- Harrison
Tweed Award from American Law Institute – American Bar Association
for special merit in Continuing Legal Education, 1998
- Adjunct
Faculty Distinguished Service Award, Osgoode Hall Law, School 2004
- Author
of Tremeear's Annotated Criminal Code (Carswell); Watt's Manual of
Criminal Evidence (Carswell); Watt's Manual of Criminal Jury Instructions
(Carswell); Helping Jurors Understand (Carswell); Criminal Law Precedents,
(Carswell)
- President
and Chairman of the coa-parkedrd of Directors; Ontario Hockey Federation,
1991-1997
- Director,
Canadian Hockey Association, 1991-1997
- Appointed to the
Court of Appeal for Ontario, October 12, 2007
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